Depending on how you respond, the COVID-19 pandemic could be a total disruption of your life or could be the beginning of a new lease of life for you, Executive Director of Springboard Road Show Foundation, Rev Albert Ocran has stated. Sharing a story, he titled ‘one pandemic, three movers’,...
The Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Philip Ebow Bondzi-Simpson has said that government must, as a matter of urgency, restructure the condition of service of public servants in order to keep them focused and content to deliver on their duties. According to him, even...
The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) and the 24 shipping lines operating in the country have resolved to stay freight charges for the 2020/2021 cocoa season. This means the rate, calculated per tonne, for shipping the crop to the various locations across the world remains unchanged at...
Research scientists from the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) working on the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR Cowpea) variety have been commended for sticking to the confined field trial protocols issued by the National Biosafety Authority. The adherence to protocol helps to...
President Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for Cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season. The government has pegged the new price at GHS10, 560 per metric ton of cocoa--- which translates to GHS660 per bag of cocoa. The current 2019/20 producer price of GHS8,240 per metric ton (GHS514/64kg Bag) was...
Stanbic Bank Ghana, as part of its ‘All for One’ campaign, has delivered 3,008 units of COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test kits and 3,072 units of Nucleic acid (RNA) extraction kits to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to enhance its COVID-19 testing and early case detection capacity. This is...
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) has stressed its commitment to developing market-driven improved cowpea varieties for West Africa, using mature-markers to boost food security. New varieties have been developed with the aim of building multiple resistance to Root Rot disease, Cowpea...
I write this rejoinder in response to a story by Panbrose Salt Company Ltd dated 15th September, 2020 on the above - mentioned subject. Lease of land It is recalled that the James Town Stool leased a 5-acre land to me on 1st March, 2014 for Industrial Purpose. The land was...
President Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for Cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season. The government has pegged the new price at GHS10, 560 per metric ton of cocoa--- which translates to GHS660 per bag of cocoa. The current 2019/20 producer price of GHS8,240 per metric ton (GHS514/64kg Bag) was...
Achimota Retail Centre has set off its month-long fifth anniversary celebration in a public-spirited fashion, with the donation of a consignment of medical supplies and PPEs to the Achimota Hospital in Accra. A delegation led by Mr. Isaac Kyei-Mensah, a Director at the Centre, handed over items including latex examination...